Bertil Matérn

Bertil Matérn
Bertil Matérn
Born	May 18, 1917; Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	November 6, 2007 (aged 90); Danderyd, Sweden
Alma mater	Stockholm University
Known for	Matérn covariance function
Spouse	Carin Berglund (m. 1947)
Children	2
	Scientific career
Fields	Spatial statistics; Forestry statistics; Point processes;
Institutions	Forestry Research Institute of Sweden; Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences;
Thesis	Spatial Variation: Stochastic models and their application to some problems in forest surveys and other sampling investigations (1960)
Doctoral advisor	Harald Cramér

Bertil Matérn (18 May 1917 – 6 November 2007) was a Swedish statistician. The Matérn covariance function is named after him.

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